To mark the 20th anniversary of my first baby quilt, I have been reflecting on what I have learned along the way. Creative Backstory is a series of blog posts each highlighting a different year. I invite you to share your creative backstory. Each day, I will post an optional prompt. Leave your response as a comment below or on my Serendipity Facebook page or use the tag #creativebackstory or Instagram and I will add your name to my Creative Backstory Giveaway. I look forward to reading about what has shaped your creative life.
Creating in the Serendipity Studio
In 2004, the Laundry King and I embarked on our version of sea change. We sold our Sydney home and moved to Copacabana, NSW full time. After four years of working at the kitchen table, it was an absolute joy to set up the Serendipity Studio in a dedicated creative space overlooking the ocean.
I describe this space in more detail in a Quilters Companion article by Erica Spinks: In the Studio with Brenda Gael Smith. Also see my Serendipity Studio Tour blogpost from 2012.
This was the view today.
Sharing Stories: Prompt # 4 & Giveaway
I invite you to share your creative backstory. Here are is an optional prompt:
- describe your creative space.
Leave your response as a comment below or use the tag #creativebackstory on Facebook or Instagram. I look forward to reading about what has shaped your creative life and will put your name into my celebratory giveaway. At the end of June, after I have completed Creative Backstory posts, I will select one commenter and, pandemic postal system permitting, this King Parrot textile sketch will wing its way to a new home.
Candy Walker says
I sewed in Mum & Dads caravan.
Then the dining table. Then a spare bedroom, always used the kitchen bench for cutting out as it was the right height. Designed & built a house which was my creative outlet for some years & had a dedicated studio with a garden outlook that functioned beautifully but at a time when family & work commitments meant low productivity. Now I have a lined double garage. Despite being the same floor size as my previous perfect room this one has had multiple reorganisations to get a good workflow as it only has one window/door. It has wonderful overhead natural light & is easily warmed in the winter & cooled in the summer. I have always valued having a sewing space.
Brenda Gael Smith says
Workflow is so important. Something that looks good in theory can be miserable in practice. Design matters!